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History runs up against a wall in America Tropical
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The redemptive force of the opera's historical ghosts rises on a wave of events that gives distressing currency to the libretto's emphatic assertion, "There is no present / There is no future / Only the past, happening over and over again." *

AMERICA TROPICAL

Through May 20

Thurs.–Sun., 8 p.m., $15–$25

Thick House

1695 18th St., SF

www.thickhouse.org

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